YeOleImposter
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I too like the idea of a micro-free event. Although there are some cool micros, for the most part they never show off the city, and when they do they are "micros in the woods" which some folk think are great because they are "difficult" but which I just find to be an annoying waste of good cache space
A question: On the "II" series of caches, do you also eliminate caches done in the previous cache machine?
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- Tri-Cities II, September 2009
Woot! We will be waiting for you! Kind of like the Olympics coming to town
Time to start preparing. Get some more good caches out there and set up a hot chocolate stand next to your favorite cache (just so you can watch others be tormented).
- Tri-Cities II, September 2009
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Once you release the coin, you've got to just nature take its course. As we have learned, some people play the game "differently" than others. Some people collect shiny things and keep them. Calling that stealing is not right. I prefer, "Permission-less borrowing". Why can't we all just get along and learn that we are all different and not everyone's definition of "Wrong" is the same. Who has the right to tell anyone else that "Permission-less borrowing" is somehow "wrong"?
And some take the whole geocache -- why do we have a problem with that? They just play the game "differently" than others.
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I have removed the date restriction on the WA County Challenge cache due to a few complaints addressed in the forums. For those of you who have completed the Delorme Challenge & could not complete this challenge due to the dates of your finds, it's wide open now. Come get your smiley. Special Congrats to you all who completed this challenge the hard way.
I understand folks wanting a way to check off that they have done a cache in every county. For those that want a 'new' challenge how about starting a "WA County Challenge - 2008 Edition"? Only finds in 2008 will count. It can be archived in a year, and a new one started if there is interest?
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Bump.
So many questions, so little time.
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I have a 60csx but leave the electronic compass off for 2 reasons:
1) I started with a legend and learned to use it without the compass. If it says that the cache is 20 feet away NW -- then it is 20' away NW, whether you have an electronic compass or not. If you take note of the cardinal directions as you are walking to the cache, just walk 20' NW no matter where the arrow is pointing.
2) The electronic compass never seems to stay calibrated. If I remembered to calibrate it every day then it might be better, but once I know which direction is North (while I am walking) then it does not matter if the gps is pointing me the right direction or not -- as long as it tells me which direction to go (kinda like analog and digital clocks)
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I wanted to doubt your MC1262 because of the '1961'visible on the disk but plugged the coordinates into the map and sure enough, someone made an error on the datasheet.
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Portland-area Maps For Garmin Gps Units
I just saw this old topic after it was bumped, so if you would like to add some free, detailed topo maps of the Portland and much of the Vancouver area to your Garmin GPS, check it out.
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I would like a menu option that let me check which waypoint groups I would like displayed:
- POIs from mapsource
- user waypoints
- different folders of user POIs
Most of the time I do not need the mapsource POIs.
I have my own sets of custom POIs that I need for different things, having them all displayed all the time clutters my screen and if I only load the ones I need today, then this afternoon I will wish I had the others.
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I like the option of being able to switch over to the new map. But either way would work.
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I would leave it as it is. Do not archive it. Some of us are working on it slowly but surely. Of course I guess if a new one started I would probably have the same number of pages ready to go.
Any restriction would have to be just on those who actually completed Delorme #1 -- otherwise any time period counts.
PS I looks like there are not all the little 28A pages on the new map
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Just like some unscrupulous people will steal artwork for their private collection, so also some unscrupulous cachers will steal coins for their private collection. Funny how they rationalize their theft.
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Cornstarch and a soft brush might work.
And the best method to test to see if the electric fence is live is to pee on it
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This looks to be just a difference in 'rounding' since the accuracy was obviously not enough to have decimal seconds. So if it was, say 114 35 34.4 it would round to 114 35 34. and with the adjustment it became 114 35 34.6 and was printed as 114 35 35. Only a 0.2 second change, but the data sheet shows 1 second of change.
And if the scaled marks coordinates 'moved', then maybe they moved 100 feet closer
As to which one to use? For scaled marks the coordinates are to help you find a parking spot, not the mark, so it doesn't matter.
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To all concerned. Mabe once, twice even three times but multiple times for this to keep happening I think there is something going on. Beyond that just read the logs. I am more concerned about the saftey of others and I hope that this problem will be watched closely. Thankyou.
Thanks for explaining this cryptic message. I am not sure why the message had to be so cryptic unless you know who it is that has a grudge against you and are trying to send a private message in the public forum.
Sad to see these caches destroyed before they even were a month old. Unless this is happening to everyone's caches in the area I would say you have made someone mad and they are trying to get even.
A couple years ago we had a similar problem over here in south eastern washington therefore we all started hiding multis and offset caches. The 'hooligans' were not willing to 'work' to find the cache, they wanted to go right to it and vandalize it. Luckily they got bored with quickly.
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Got my new Vista HCx a little over a week ago; upgrade from an eTrex Legend. I can't believe the accuracy!
Sitting in my living room with the nearest window 15' away to the east, a 8' front porch and an unfinished room overhead. My Legend might see a satellite or two with a VERY weak signal and never get a lock. I could put a USB extension on the Legend and set it in one of the window sills and may occasionally get enough signal to get a poor fix. Sitting in the same place with the Vista I'm getting eight satellites and 15' EPE. Coord's shown on the satellite page don't jump at all.
Sitting at my desktop computer in the kitchen, which is behind the wall where I'm sitting in the living room, with the nearest window about 15' away to the west, a ten foot porch and the same unfinished room overhead, and I'm getting good satellites with 26' EPE, no wavering of signals. The Legend would NEVER have seen a satellite from in there.
Last night, sitting in the bleachers near the east end of a concrete gym (concrete roof arches, I don't know the roof composition) and rows of windows on the long north and south walls above those bleachers. I was getting satellites with a 46' EPE. The Legend might have seen a satellite every now and then, but never gotten a lock.
Sitting in an office, inside a hanger with sheet metal walls and roof; a few skylights. I had something like 5 or 6 satellites and an 86' EPE. I might have gotten a glimpse or two of a satellite with my Legend. Coord's didn't jump around.
Now, to out in the wild . . . After four caches, I am finding that the Vista seems to be putting me 12-20' away from caches with good signal lock. Naturally, between the inherent error from EPE between two different units and potentially lower sensitivity of the hiders GPSr . . . it may well be I'm close to the correct coordinates and the hider was not . . .
I have not had my position jump around at all. I was seeing that with my Legend on multiple occasions, especailly with heavy cover. Standing in one spot it might show me at GZ, then suddenly GZ was 70' to the south, then all of a sudden 15' to the west. Another day I had it out walking on a local path to track our distance and speed. With light to moderate tree cover, it was doing O.K., until it came time to turn around and walk back. After doing so, I noticed the track was showing a jog several hundred feet perpendicular off the trail that we had not made. Screwed up the odometer and average speed of the rest of the walk. As I get more caching in with my Vista, I'll better be able to assess its accuracy in the wild.
JohnTee
Cannot be sure, but I was having problem with a new Vista HCX until I turned off the compass (my new 60csx has the exact same problem). Since you are saying it does not jump around, I am guessing you have the magnetic compass turned on. Try turning it off, sure it will jump, but as long as you ignore the arrow and go N,S,E,orW it will work just like your Legend and put you at GZ.
If you really want to use the magnetic compass, then I suggest calibrating it each day before you go out caching, away from your vehicle.
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I read somewhere that you can use a cell phone USB car power cord on a new style Garmin with USB port. Can anyone positively verify this. I hate to plug it in and ruin a brand new unit. By the way it's a Etrex Vista HCX. Thanks in advance for your help.
Gene
Do it all the time, didn't even give it a second thought.
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Geocachers of South East Washington aka GCSEWA (GeeksWA) is having their December Gathering on December 20th. Last month had over 45 cachers. Not sure it will be quite so crowded this month so close to Christmas unless we give away free presents.
Last month was fun because we announced the Tribute to Debiko cache.
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If there are locals that know of a nice hotel down there that isn't too pricey can you let us know.
My kids only needs - an indoor pool
Looks like it is time to start working Priceline. I see that people have been successful for about $48 per night for the Red Lion at the Quay -- whatever that is
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Alaska has a green hat
Alaska has the misfortune that many of its datasheets don't contain county names, so their recoveries don't get added to the map. There are probably 20-30 recoveries in Alaska that aren't anywhere on the map.
edit: Oops, there are actually almost 180 Alaskan recoveries that have no place on the map because there is no county on the datasheet.
Something else I noticed about Alaska is that there are no 'scaled' benchmarks. They are all adjusted, or at least 99 out of 100 are.
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400 days of sunshine a year over here in the Tri-Cities -- so come visit us if you get too wet or cold.
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Interesting to say the least.
If you read the Wiki article, you will see that GPS co-ordinates can (haven't tried it yet) be added to the Exif tag!
Very useful if the data is saved in the image on GC.com and can be retrieved by someone downloading it.
I think perhaps some puzzle caches have been created this way...hmmmm......
I have looked at some programs that will match the date and time on from the photo exif with the date and time on your GPS tracking data and then put the matching GPS co-ordinates into the photo exif data.
Just like gc.com reads the time data, some sites, Flickr?, will use the gps data to place the picture on a world map. Would be cool to have little icons around the country and you could just click on the icons of interest in your area and see the benchmark photos.
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This sounds very good. However, like ArtMan, I have never submitted photos to the NGS and many others have not either, I suspect. I think the main thing that dampens our interest in submitting photos to the NGS is that there's no evidence or assurance that our photos will be used.
It would surely be a firestorm of interest among us in submitting pictures to the NGS IF we saw a datasheet with a GEOCAC report with a Pictures link in the datasheet and one of our submitters' pictures there.
Yes, a couple years ago I emailed photos after submitting the report on a handful of marks, in the required format, but never saw them 'attached' so quit submitting them to NGS.
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Hmmm, the only date I see in the logs on the sheet you reference is "20051218" ??
Hrm.. now I feel like an idiot. I somehow linked the wrong sheet. Twice. Brilliant, I am. This is the sheet I had meant to reference.
Mike.
Just another Senior Moment. I did see the correct page later when I read your post about photographs in the data sheet.
Any hints for a new 60cx?
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Agreed, 100% -- hold the page key down until it says the compass is off. You will still have the arrow -- just wont have the problems associated with the electronic compass pointing you the wrong way. Once you get a feel for using the thing, then you can turn the compass on and do the bumble bee dance each day before caching.